Quote (IceMage @ 12 Jan 2021 15:54)
Sorry, but do you seriously buy that stuff?
Ezra Klein writes:
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"But that reflects a deeper fact of Trump, and those like him: They leave us with no good options. Ignore Trump's worst comments, his most noxious followers, and you're normalizing horrifying behavior. Cover them and you're giving them exactly what they want: Attention, energy. It was always lose-lose. There was no good strategy.[...]
The platforms didn't want to make these choices. That's why they refused to make them for years and years. They did nothing and more nothing, and the result was a violent attack on the Capitol that left people dead. They're acting now because inaction failed so totally."
LOL! Trump was Twitter's cash cow, and they milked it dry until the very last moment.
Going beyond Twitter alone: from an ideological/political standpoint, these Big Tech execs had been wanting to silence Trump and figures who think like him for years. They waited until his power had evaporated (voted out of office, term about to expire) and public opinion had sharply turned against him. It's delusional to think that they didnt pull the plug earlier out of concern for freedom of speech or for democratic norms. In reality, they simply were too coward to really go after him because declaring open war on the sitting president would have risked more regulatory oversight or a rebellion from his entire votership (say around 40-45% of the country), rather than just the hiatus of his inner base (~15-25% of the country) that we're seeing now.
This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Jan 12 2021 07:50pm